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Trade Engineer
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New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-07-20
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Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-20
Job specializations:
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Software Development
DevOps, Backend Developer, Python
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain trading systems across C#, Python, and Rust
- Develop low-latency order management and execution services, including pre- and post-trade checks, order generation, and algo selection
- Build and optimize reconciliation pipelines that certify account status and surface breaks against custodial and internal data
- Integrate with execution venues, custodians, and market data providers via FIX and APIs
- Build and optimize data pipelines connecting custodial data, security master databases, and real-time market data feeds
- Contribute to systems for monitoring, alerting, and observability to track execution quality and system health, and act on what the data reveals
- Investigate and remediate issues across trade execution, allocation, and account positions, often under time pressure during market hours
- Build internal services and assist in building UI components for managing trading workflow
- Write comprehensive unit and integration tests, and uphold engineering best practices around code review, CI/CD, and deployment safety
- Minimum of 2+ years of software engineering experience building reliable and efficient trading systems
- 3+ years of software engineering experience preferred
- Strong proficiency in C#, Python, and optionally Rust or C++
- Solid grasp of concurrency, memory management, and performance profiling
- Experience building and operating production backend services and APIs (REST and/or streaming)
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL for trading and market data
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues
- Experience with AWS, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (CDK/Terraform) and observability tooling (Datadog)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, code review, testing, and Unix/Linux systems
- Experience in equities trading, algorithmic execution, and transaction cost analysis
- Familiarity with real-time market data APIs (Polygon, Bloomberg, Reuters)
- Understanding of portfolio management, trade reconciliation, and custodial operations
- Meticulous attention to detail when operating systems that handle real capital
- Background in fintech, asset management, or a quantitative trading environment
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